The transitions and challenges that women face at midlife with hormonal and psychological changes, is a topic rarely addressed in culture except for the way Hollywood makes women out to be crazy. While much is said about the "midlife crisis" for men, it is rarely acknowledged that women also go through a big change at this time in life, perimenopause to menopause. The result is that women often feel alone as they go through what seems like the loss of their youth and their beauty... and in many, many cases, their value. Not only is there scanty information about this tremendous change available, but what little is out there is steeped in resignation and lacking in feminine wisdom teaching.

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Such a huge part of what happens to Woman in her midlife is that she falls prey to the cultural adoration of the Maiden's form. As she watches her body change, largely outside of her control (thank you, hormones), while being immersed in a world culture that worships youth and beauty, Woman finds herself having no true and natural context for dealing with the appearance of wrinkles and cellulite and the disappearance of her former muscle tone. Add to that hot flashes, unpredictable bleeds and moodiness, and she experiences herself as the "hot mess" that culture would label her.

 

This program is the solution to that dilemma.

 

Deonesea La Fey and Jamila Suzanne, HMS Mentors, are offering a nine month exploration of Woman at Midlife alongside the HMS curriculum. The focus of this course will be on addressing the midlife changes from a place of deep feminine wisdom teachings that address the hormonal, emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological aspects of this huge initiation of womanhood.

 

WOMAN AT MIDLIFE INCLUDES:

• One 75 minute group call each month​

• Deep feminine support during the tremendous initiation that is perimenopause and menopause

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Homecoming - Coming all the way home to yourself… to this body as she is now, to this truth that this change is big and it IS happening… accepting the process, accepting change.

 

Communion - Using a TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) metaphor of the blade of grass that bends -- working with the supple - what doesn't bend,breaks. Being malleable in "the change", carrying this over into relationship dynamics with the external world and people.

 

Paradise - Learning to feel our sense of beauty, sexuality and sensuality as things we generate from within and resource from the truth of who we are, rather than as things that are naturally present through the hormones of our youth.

 

Descent - Annihilation and grief sharing. Honoring the letting go, looking at longevity with gratitude and the inevitability of death with eyes wide open. 

 

Dark Mother - Surrendering to the process, embracing the wisdom of the body and the veils between life phases, Resting into Her.

 

Alchemista - Art and creativity as an outlet. Recognizing the "empty canvas", clean slate and world of possibility in ourselves as creatives.  

 

Oracle - Quieting and settling our nervous systems so that we may experience the space and ability to listen from within.

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Heavenly Mother - She who walks in beauty, receiving the starry crown, leaning into the heavenly aspect of Aphrodite’s love and beauty

 

Priestess - Bringing in the season of Harvest and condensed, concentrated potency.  Like a superfood. a dried rosehip, elderberry, goji, spirulina -- All the nutrients that "pack a punch" but vary from low hanging drippy ripe fruit. The power of the midlife woman… who she is when she fully claims herself and walks in the dynamism of what she’s reckoned with, overcome and gained.